Conditioning for Hockey
A Quick Snippet of Some Awesome Crossover Training with Bands
The mark of a modern day hockey player is that he or she be an outstanding athlete, first and foremost. And to old Coach Chic, athleticism is best developed through the use of certain “crossover sports” or activites. Fortunately for us, Dave “The Band Man” offers monthly training in the use of rubber bands for…
Read MoreNope! Don’t Follow The Hockey Crowd!
I recently posted an article entitled “Adapting to a Pandemic Lifestyle”. My real point in that piece was to help those in charge of young players from getting dragged onto and off of (and onto and off of) the numerous hockey guru bandwagons. Unfortunately, here’s what I meant — and there are two sides…
Read MoreThe Nature of Our Game
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Read MoreSo You Think Your Genes Determine Your Fate In Sports? — Part 3
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Read MoreTHE Most Important Hockey Season Is Coming Up?
I’m hoping my hockey friends noticed the “THE” in my title, because I truly meant to type it that way. Yes, I feel that in the overall picture of being a hockey coach or hockey dad — or even if I was an adult rec player, the coming days, weeks and months are as important…
Read MoreMaking Long Jump Ropes
While I studied long ago in the old USSR, I found it interesting that their coaches used a lot of activities for training that we’d have defined as schoolyard or playground games her in the states. Perhaps what I found most interesting was the fact that we North Americans had abandoned many of those physical…
Read MoreThe Importance Of Recovery
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Read MoreMore “Chop Stix”
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Read MoreCoach Chic’s Hockey Chopped Stix
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Read MoreSuspension Training for Hockey Players
I’m always saying that part of my job is to do the research for my hockey members (and I also like to do it selfishly, for myself). Anyway, I’ve always subscribed to a number of strength training magazines and newsletters, just so I can keep-up with the very latest in training methods. So, along came a new…
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